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Industries never tire of reciting their greatness. Occasionally the recital is an astonishing reminder of the size and complexity of social and industrial organization. Last week, for example, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. issued a booklet of statistics on its busi- ness-just figures-but large ones: ¶ 20.5 billion telephone conversations a year in the U. S. ¶ 24.5 million telephones in use. ¶ 67.8 million miles of telephone wire strung from pole to pole. ¶ 63% of the world's telephones...
...complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby a scholarship of $3,000, two and one-half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris...
Engineer Ethelbert Favary pointed out the decrease in road destruction that is obtained by distributing a given weight over six surfaces instead of four. To save their roads, many states have enacted laws limiting the weight of trucks and the weight of their loads per square inch of tire. Under the California law, 180 5.5-ton four-wheelers would be required legally to carry a load of merchandise that 100 7-ton six-wheelers could handle. The 100 six-wheelers, weighing many tons less than the 180 four-wheelers, would pound up the roads less. They would burn about...
...Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation was continued without relief for three interminable minutes. "Goodrich tires," yelled a hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire. In the second round, he repeated his merciless operations, when suddenly Loayzo began to hop about on one foot with the deranged, sickening absurdity of one whose mind and nerves have become disconnected. A towel flew from...
...complete plans. Last week the five waited on a fire-escape in Manhattan while inside a group of judges, headed by patrician Whitney Warren, famed architect, sat to find out which was the best. One Percival Goodman, 21, was presently informed that he had designed the pleasantest home for tire filibusterers, won thereby a scholarship of $3,000, two and one-half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris...